Stock-watering device



' E. S. .IOHNS'ON.

STOCK WATERING DEVICE.

nrucmou men APR. 9. 1920. I

Reissued July 5, 1921.

' UNITED STATES PgEN OFFICE.

ERNEST S. JOHNSON, OF WEBSTER CITY, IOWA, ASSIGNOZR 0F ONE-HALF TO WILLIAM B. KOO-D, .OF WEBSTER CITY, IOWA.

STOCK-WAT-EEING nnvicn Specification of Reissued Letters Patent. R i uefl July 5, 1921 Original No. 1,287,696, dated December 17, 1918, Serial No. 219,057, filed February 25, 1918. Application for reissue filed April 9, 1920.

To all wlmm it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ennnsr S. J OHNSQN, a citizen of the United States of America, and a residentof Webster City, Hamilton county, Iowa, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stock-Watering Devices, of which the following is a specification;

IVIy invention relates to improvements in stock watering devices, and the object of my improvement is to furnish a simple, convenient watering tank and holder, provided with removable drinking chambers for a plurality of stock, and arranged interiorly to permit water to be warmed in the tank and the chambers, while permitting cleaning of the chambers at anytime.

This object I have accomplished by the means which are hereinafter described and c11imed, and which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which:

F gure 1 is a vertical transverse medial section of my improved stock watering device.

Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal medial Section of the same.

Fig. 3 is a top plan view of the device, with the cover, the tank and one of the chamber-hoods removed.

Fig. at is a perspective View of the tank, show ng its delivery device partially broken awa Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the receptacle.

Fig. 6 is a perspective viewot one of the chamber-hoods.

Similar numeralsof reference denote corresponding '-parts thIOMghOllt the several views.

The numeral 1 denotes a hollow rectangular casing, providedwith a removable cover 2 closing its open top. In one end of the casing is ,a door-opening 18 having at thej sides guides 17 to receive the side edges of a slide 3. Both the cover 2 and'the slide have ventilating orifices 16 and respectively. A lamp, as indicated n Fig. 1, may be introduced into the casing through said doorwayto rest on the bottom plate thereof to' ,warin the contentsof the drinkin chambers and the supply-tank above, 'Fhe bottom plate of the casing has orifices 19 to permit drainage.

Referring now to Fig. 1, the numeral {1 denotes a rectangular opening, there being Serial No. 372,718.

such openings on opposite sides of said casing. A shallow open top pan or receptacle ,5 is positioned across the interior of the casing, and has its end edges 24 inverted and fitted removably over the lower edges of said open ngs to support said receptacle suspensively. Each end of said receptacle, within said casing, is partially inclosed by a chamber-hood 6, of the form shown in said Fig. 6, having its lower rectangular end dipped within the receptacle part way therethrough, each hood having inverted edge parts 20 and 21 which pass through the opening 4 to engage the outer surface of the'casing to hold the hood in position. On the inner face of each end-wall of the casing is fixed a sup, porting bar 7 on whose middle is a U-shaped bearing 8 to detachably receive the outwardly projected ends or pintles of acylinch'ical axist) fixed axially through a cylindrical supplytank or vessel 10. This tank 10 is imperforate except for some orifices 14 I placed in alinement longitudinally near together on the lower side of the tank, and which serve as receiving ports for water when the orifices are uppermost, and as delivery ports for the waterwhen the tank is inverted to the position shown. Surrounding these orifices is a boxing l1 inclosed against the, tank at the sides and ends, its

bottom partially closed at 12, and having a raised wall 13, which, however, extends onlypart way toward the tank. When the tank 10 is placed inverted after filling with water in the casing to have its pintles rest in the bearings 8, the boxing 11 extends part way down into the receptacle 5 midway between the hoods 6. At one end of the tank on itscylindrical outer wall, spaced lugs 23 have alined orifices to receive a rod 22, which can be slid along to reston the ledge of the bar 7 to hold the tank steady.

The inclosed spaces in the receptacle 5 at its ends, serve as drinking chambers for animale, who drink through the openings 4:, and the drinking chambers are kept supplied by the tank 10, since the Water level in the receptacle is determined by the delivery of water from the tank by wa of the boxing 11" as governed by the limiting wall 13 and the depending lower end of said boxing within said receptacle. It will be seen that all the parts are readily assembled or disassembled for cleaning or repair, the device is compact, can be used by a plurality of animals at once, andthe contents of the receptacle and tank kept warm in cold weather, by the lamp within the casing.

Since the tank 10 is rotatable upon its pintles 9, after the slide pin 22 has been pushed in, and one of the hoods 6 have been removed, the tank may be rocked upwardly in order to place its boxing l1 uppermost, and then water may be introduced into the tank by way of the'orifices l4, and when filled, the tank may be rocked reversely to locate the boxing again within the receptacle 5, and the hood 6 replaced, and the tank is then held by sliding the pin 22 out wardly to rest upon the support 7, although, of course, without that, the boxing could not be rotated past the depending hoods 6. \Varm air from the lamp 25 circulates through the casing 1, passing upwardly about the tank 10 and heats the spindles and hearings or t *unnions, thus preventing them from becoming inoperable or obstructed by climatic conditions, the openings 15 and 16 in the casing and its cover permltting a proper ventilation.

Having now described my invention, I claim:

1. In a stock watering device, a casing having openings in opposite sides, an open top receptacle positioned across the interior of the casing from one opening to the other, and an inverted vessel having common receiving and delivery ports and having a pendent chamber receiving from said ports and having a channel delivering into said receptacle, including an elevated part of the channel restricting the delivery therefrom, said chamber having part of its outer closure wall removed and having a longitudinal ledge extending as a partial septum across it spaced fromthe vessel.

2. In a stock watering device, a casing having openings, an open top receptacle positioned within said casing communicating with said openings and having end flanges hung detachably on the lower margins of said openings, hoods partially inclosing end parts of said receptacle removably in cominunicaticn with both said openings and the receptacle and removable outwardly by way of said. openings, and a rotatable tank mounted in said casing above said receptacle, and having a common receiving and delivery port adapted to be used to fill the tank when rotated upwardly, and to deliver its contents into said receptacle when rotated down wardly.

3, In a stock watering device, a casing having openings, an open top receptacle positi oned within said casing and communicating with said openings,hoods partially inclosing end parts of said receptacle removable outwardly and being in communicationwith said opcnlngs and said receptacle, and a said trough, a water tank for automatically feeding water to the trough rotatably sup-- ported on trunnions entirely within-the casing, heating means within the casing for causing heat-to pass around the trough, tank and saidtrunnions, and enable the tank to be easily rotated at all times.

5. In a device of the character described,

a watering trough, a container in which said trough is mounted and through which access may be had to the trough, a water feeding tank, rotatably supported adjacent the trough on trunnions and in a position to antomatically feed water to the trough, the walls of said trough being in part spaced from the walls of said container, and means for maintaining heataround the trough, the trunnions and water feeding tank, and preventing water in the tank and trough from freezing and the trunnions from becoming frozen or stuck in their bearings.

6. In a device of the character described, a container provided with oppositely positioned drinking openings, a watering trough between the openings and resting on the material forming the lower edges of saidopenings, a water olding tank rotatably mount-' ed in the sides of the container and provided with means for automatically feeding water to the trough in an amount not sufficient to overflow the same, a heater, said trough, tank and heater being so arranged within the container that heat will pass up around the trough and tank and its hearings to warm the water and maintain the tank in an easily rotatable condition in cold weather.

7. In a device of the character described, a container, in which each of two opposite walls has a drinking opening formed ther in, a pan supported between said openings with its bottom elevated a substantial distance above the bottom of the container, a

rotatable tank in the container for auto-.

matically feeding to and maintaining fluid in the pan, a heater below said pan to prevent freezing of the Water, said rotatable tank being so arranged relative to said container that heat will reach the rotatable mounting of said tank and prevent freezing thereof.

8. In a device of the character described,

an angular container having a pair of drink:

ing openings in opposite walls spaced from the bottom thereof, a pan supported between said openings with its bottom elevated above the bottom of the container, hoods extending inwardly and downwardly from said openings to limit the escape of heat from the container, a rotatable tank in the con tainer for automatically feeding fluid to the 10 pan in an amount insufficient to cause overflow thereof, a heater in the container, in position to' heat the fluid in said pan and tank, and the hearings of the tank, and enable the-tank to be easily rotated in cold weather, and a door in one Wall of the con tainer whereby access may be had to the heater.

Signed at Webster City, State of Iowa, this 29th day of March, 1920.

ERNEST S. JOHNSON. 

